This Week`s Brexit Car Crash Was As Absorbing As It Was Inevitable(World News UK)

7 december 2017 12:34:02

This week´s Brexit car crash has been as absorbing as it was inevitable. Given the Conservatives disastrous election, and subsequent patched-together deal with the Democratic Unionist Party, this could not have happened any other way. To imagine that somehow the specific circumstances of the Irish border would not have been an enormous stumbling block was a function of the two modes of Brexit: the magical thinking of the likes of Daniel Hannan MEP, in which somehow everything stays the same, but somehow better, or the cackling nihilism of the Arron Banks and the Leave.EU crew, in which chaos is apparently the aim. Decades of British indifference to Ireland north and south have of...